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Freestyle

There is more than one artist with the name Freestyle: 1. One of the most prolific and influential of the '80s electro artists, Miami-based producer Tony Butler recorded a string of popular club tracks on Power/Jam Packed and his own Music Specialist label in the mid-'80s, helping build the electro legacy that would give birth to Miami-style bass music and freestyle (named after Butler's primary pseudonym), as well as influence '90s post-techno artists such as Autechre and Biochip C.

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Captain Rock

In the early 80's underground electro/hip-hop artist (real name Ronnie Green) became CAPTAIN ROCK. Some of his Classic hits include "Captain Rock To the Future Shock", "House of Rock" and "Cosmic Blast". Captain Rock was produced by Aleem (Taharqa & Tunde-ra Aleem) on NIA. Allegedly, at he UK Fresh Fest in 1986, he was accused of stripping down to his thongs!
He was known as 'DJ Ronnie Green' the 'LIVE' DJ for Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde during their Harlem World Crew era.

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Arabian Prince

Arabian Prince is the stage name of Mik Lezan (born October 12, 1964 in Inglewood, California), a rapper and hip hop producer, best known for being an original member of the legendary rap group, N.W.A. Born and raised in Inglewood, California, Arabian Prince released a solo album Situation Hot in 1985. In the following year, Arabian Prince joined up with the first gangsta rap group N.W.A. three years after graduating Inglewood High School in Inglewood, CA. He wanted to be an artist in N.W.A.

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Mesak

Mesak bio 1977
Born in Turku/Finland. - 1989
Introduction to music instruments and singing in school and at home with his musical family. Big brothers listen various music, synth music and other non-pop. Gets to know hiphop through a friend. 1990 - 1992
First experiments with music production. Tape loop edits, dubbing with open reel tape recorder and turntable. Later crappy PC tracker programs combined with tascam 4 tracker, roland SH7 and various equipment. 1992 - 1996

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Morphology

Morphology can be
1 Morphology
2 MC Morphology 1 ‘Morphology’, a new collaboration from Finland consisting of Michael Diekmann who records under the alias CRC and Matti Turunen otherwise known as Näköradiomies. Morphology fuses early electro sounds with haunting melodies to create a deep blend of atmospheric future funk. 2 MC Morphology is a vocalist, Jungle/Drum&Bass MC, writer and poet currently working for www.last.fm/label/ubrecordz, based in Southern England, UK.

Read more about Morphology on Last.fm.

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Bass Junkie

U.K.-based producer Phil Klein releases Miami bass-inflected new school electro under his Bass Junkie aegis. Appearing most recently on the Breakin' Records label and on his own Parallax imprint, Klein's Bass Junkie material draws liberally from classics of electro-funk and bass music -- from Freestyle's "It's Automatic" and Unknown DJ's "808 Beats" to Maggotron's "Planet of Bass" -- combining truckloads of samples with crisp, uptempo rhythms and, naturally, the deepest of bone-rattling bass. Although his discography includes a number of tracks released as Battle Systems, I.

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Transparent Sound

Biography Transparent Sound has had various different members over the years, but is essentially a musical collaboration between Martin Brown and Orson Bramley, who met and started writing music together in their home town of Bognor Regis, UK back in 1994. Along with co-founder Steve Penfold they set about creating a very distinctive electro influenced sound. The first release on Transparent Sound Recordings, Meltdown Ride (or the yellow one as it has become known) came out the following year.

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